urnfield

urnfield [urn-feeld] Word Origin noun

1. a Bronze Age cemetery in which the ashes of the dead were buried in urns.

Origin of urnfield First recorded in 1885–90; urn + field British Dictionary definitions for urnfield urnfield noun

1. a cemetery full of individual cremation urns

adjective

2. (of a number of Bronze Age cultures) characterized by cremation in urns, which began in E Europe about the second millennium bc and by the seventh century bc had covered almost all of mainland Europe